welcome to the neighborhood
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The Neighborhood strives to be a Theatre of Learning by celebrating experimentation, mistakes, growth, and process. We celebrate the shakey, magical parts of humanity by courageously visiting them through story. 
The Neighborhood is a place to come home to. We offer a potluck of aesthetics and beliefs. We challenge form, honor the feminine, provide space for big courage, strive for magic and commit to stories where art and community collide. 
Authenticity: We are committed to sharing and exploring from a place of vulnerability and empathy, to express our most authentic selves, to highlight hypocrisy, to uplift courage and justice, to share in our collective grief, to allow ourselves to truly experience communion.
Aesthetic of Necessity: We use story-inspired discoveries to make bold choices in terms of scenic properties, costumes, music, etc. - in application, we rely solely within our means to create fantastic and dynamic experiences through artistic intuition and imagination. Artist-Citizens: We strive to be theatre makers that are deeply committed to the healing, celebrating, supporting and questioning of the world around us. We understand that art and theatre are inherently political. We create art that lives in the world because we strive to be people that live in the world. We amplify important voices and narratives of our time. Anti-Racism: We commit to anti-racist work as individuals and as a group. In honor of this commitment, we have a zero tolerance policy for racism, xenophobia, and white supremacy culture in any form by our community or in our spaces. The Shakey Place: We commit to telling stories that visit and celebrate the shakey, soft, vulnerable, magical place inside us all and inspire others to courageously do the same. We believe in doing so, we can make our world more beautiful, just, compassionate and interesting. Theatre of Learning: We submit ourselves to the idea of growth. We understand and celebrate that growing and learning is non-linear. As we grow in our learning (of community, of storytelling, of music, of dancing, of singing, of mourning, of celebrating, of organizing, of painting, of lighting, of directing, of acting, of designing), we share what we have learned in order to learn more from the communities with whom we share. We allow space for mentorship and relationship in new fields. In our storytelling we welcome imperfection and failure to our process and performance in hopes of illuminating what it means to be human. Music: Our work with music reinvests in humanity, in the essential traits of being human. Our sound will be brilliant by our commitment to be in relationship to one another, through our creativity and ingenuity. Generosity of Spirit: We are open to new questions, perspectives and information. We act with respect, civility and curiosity. We speak in our own voices and we listen attentively to the voices of others. We know that our ability as artists expands when we engage in healthy, nuanced discussion and persevere with integrity when complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity challenge us. We have grace for everyone’s learning and process. Celebration of the Feminine: We commit to deconstructing the masculine norm by centralizing non-patriarchal storylines and leadership styles. We seek limitless story-telling, stories that are not shackled by the ties of the binary. Accessibility: We strive to make art and create spaces with all people in mind, in the hopes to provide access to our work regardless of ability or financial need. |
